HERMAN AGENCY represents professional artists and authors with an emphasis on the children's market. This includes picture books and middle grade books, educational books and supplementary materials, children's magazines, cartoons, licensed characters, as well as stationery, advertising, toys and editorial illustrations. the agency is not currently interested in YA books.

Ronnie Ann Herman, Agent: Ronnie started Herman Agency in 1999 and represents many of the leading illustrators and author/illustrators in today's children's book market. As a former Art Director at Random House and Art Director, Associate Publisher and V.P. at Penguin Books' Grosset & Dunlap, Ronnie art directed thousands of children's books during her more than 20 years in publishing. Ronnie is also the author of 12 children’s books and one of her books has been on the NY Times best-seller list. Ronnie and the Agency are affiliated with the following organizations: SCBWI, Authors' Guild, Graphic Artists' Guild, U.S. Association of Accredited Business.

SUBMISSIONS for Ronnie:PICTURE BOOKS: Ronnie particularly interested in author/illustrator picture books works. I am taking on very few authors who do not illustrate or illustrators who do not write. Please send me a Word Doc. of the entire manuscript with small jpegs of art samples for the manuscript and/or a PDF of a sketch dummy of the book and color samples. Send your submissions to ronnie@hermanagencyinc.comMIDDLE GRADE: I am only interested in highly illustrated middle grade books--series or not. Please send me the first 10 pages with art. Send submissions to ronnie@hermanagencyinc.com

Katia Herman, Agent: I graduated from NYU, where I created my own major in painting and writing. I now have 2 sons and 2 stepsons, ages 12, 10, 9 and 3, so I am a very busy mom in a home with 5 males! Middle grade books are not only something I enjoy reading, but a genre I read to my boys aloud and feel connected to because I live with so many kids who read and love what they read.

For myself, I wrote and illustrated my first "book", You Get Some Good and You Get Some Bad, when I was eight years old. Throughout high school (I went to Fieldston in NYC) I wrote endless poems and found solace in characters in literature from Anna in Anna Karenina to Holden Caulfield in Catcher in The Rye.

As I got older I loved the complex voice of Nabokov and got through my teenage and young adult years with the help of Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich and T.S. Eliot. These are years I still hold close to me, and it is no wonder I find myself now an agent for YA and middle grade books. I love these genres!

I also run my own high-end flower design business, and in my few moments of spare time I practice yoga, run, box, paddleboard, cook and draw.

SUBMISSIONS for Katia:MIDDLE GRADE and YA: I am looking for wonderful new voices for these genres. I am not particularly interested in time travel, sci-fi or fantasy unless you are doing something new and fresh. Please send me the first 20 pages as a Word Doc. to katia.hermanagency@gmail.com